Monday, February 16, 2015

Today, I spent my time googling "Dumb Goals to Have in Life."

The storyline once again has changed with my project. Instead of doing the life-progression thing, due to complications, I have reverted to a typical underdog type story. Only I want to add a humorous twist to it.

Today I am looking up "dumb goals to have in life", to try and add to the storyline and funny comedy in the music video for "The Ultimate" by Stan Bush.

Monday, February 9, 2015

My story for the "Almost Famous" project has been finalized.

Originally, I was planning on doing the life timeline video, however, due to lack of time and resources, I don't think I will be able to pull this off.

With the help of my TV Production teacher Mr. Lynch, we came to the idea of me doing the traditional underdog type story, only with a silly twist to it to make it appear more as a comedy.

Since the work is all done outside of school, today I started typing my creative writing paper assignment. I am basing the deep storyline off of a drunk driving PSA I had made for my TV Production class.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

I am beginning to finalize the storyline to my music video for the song "The Ultimate" by Stan Bush. 

I am going to attempt a motivational, thought provoking "circle of life" style video, showing several older clips of me that I have made (with my years of video making interest), and showing the progression of time throughout the clips. The lyrics are extremely fitting for the topic: "You've searched for so long, a lifetime of waiting, the powers are waking," "Hold tight, life's a rocket ride," and "You've come this far, it's yours for the taking." 

I would capture footage of an older man, preferably a senior citizen in my family, around the house, reminiscing on items, and then the majority of the video would be the flashbacks of mainly middle school and high school footage of me, with several old, adolescent pictures being displayed. 

The song ends in a unique fashion, with a snare drum line, surreal sounding synthesizer, and a vocal choir hitting different notes. For the finally, it would be a black and white, slow-motion "flashback" over the entire life of this man, and when the drumline abruptly stops with the song, the senior citizens eyes would close, bringing us to the music videos ending. 

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Well, now at the conclusion of Winter Break, it is now a new year, 2015.

I had a fresh idea for my music video. Rather than doing a generic music video about teenage life or showing a typical scenario, I thought I would do something more personal and closer to home, and VERY relatable.

I have been interested in movies and filming ever since I was in the 5th grade. I have an enormous library of projects piled up. I was thinking of setting the music video to the progression of my own life, to where I am now, as kind of a "reflection," and also, to be a very motivational viewpoint for those who watch it.

To do a clipshow/slideshow of how I got from Point A to B in life, so on and so forth. I think I can be a very motivational project for people to watch, and think about life.